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One of 39 Circular cards with vibrant colors, figures and images for diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades
Playing Card
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Playing Card

Maker Indian Artist
Date19th century
Place of originIndia
MediumInk and color on paper
Dimensions2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) (Diameter)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the David A. Cofrin Fund for Asian Art
Object number2016.18.3.38
Collections
Visual Description39 Circular cards with vibrant colors, figures and images for diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades
Playing Cards
Playing Cards
Indian Artist
19th century
39 Circular cards with vibrant colors, figures and images for diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades
Playing Card
Indian Artist
19th century
39 Circular cards with vibrant colors, figures and images for diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades
Playing Card
Indian Artist
19th century
39 Circular cards with vibrant colors, figures and images for diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades
Playing Card
Indian Artist
19th century
Playing Card
Playing Card
Indian Artist
20th century
11 Circular cards with vibrant colors and figures
Playing Cards
Indian Artist
20th century
Painted images of four of spades card, tank, horse’s mouth vomiting collaged black and white photographic portraits taken from a yearbook, spray paint can spraying flowers, intestinal track segment, and central image of human anatomical diagram surrounded by with black and white photo-collaged heads; palette of muted tertiary colors: pink, lavender, gray and brown.
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George Afedzi Hughes
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A print of a Jack of Spades playing card. The figure wears a boat-topped hat and red coat, holding a blue banner with a gold fleur-de-lis. The face at top has a heart over it. The figure at bottom wears a hat shaped like a red dragon.
Untitled (Jack of Spades)
Salvador Dalí
1970
Seated figure on red throne attended by two servants, one with fan and other holding an image (possibly a calligraphy)
Playing Card
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Wooden board with handle, surface painted on both sides with amuletic images: off-white, green, orange, yellow, red, brown. Circle surrounded with three rows of multi-colored triangles; Arabic inscription inside circle; top and bottom are made of Diamonds made of rectangles inscribed with small circles (top) and diamonds made up of 4 triangles, each inscribed with a circle in the center.; Verso has a rectangular shape made up of rows of triangles, with a rounded top and bottom and serpentine lin…
Divination board
Hausa Artist
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A print of a King of Spades playing card. The crowned figure holds two scepters. Its white face features black numbers like "4 6 4". The body consists of geometric blocks of red, green, blue, and black, with a large central spade.
Untitled (King of Spades)
Salvador Dalí
1970
A print of an Ace of Spades card. Two legs in blue heels point up and two arms reach down, radiating from a central black spade. A thick red ring and multiple gold swords overlay and intersect the bare limbs.
Untitled (Ace of Spades)
Salvador Dalí
1970

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